Cambodia is importing hundreds of tons of silk from China and Vietnam to compensate for a fast-declining domestic industry, which is suffering due to producers opting to grow other crops instead or raising silk worms, according to silk producers. Men Sinoeun, director of the artisans’ association <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/imports-fill-the-gap-as-domestic-silk-production-dwindles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has instructed the owners of all venues providing Internet and telephone access to the public to install security cameras on their premises to record the identity of users in an effort to crack down on terrorism and cyber-crime, states a government directive obtained <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/internet-cafes-phone-kiosks-told-to-install-security-cameras/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

One More Manufacturing Co Ltd on Saturday officially inaugurated “Mee Chiet” an instant-noodle processing factory with a production capacity of 150 million packages per year. The factory, which is located in Kouk Roka commune’s Trapaing Por village in the capital’s Prek Pnov district, will produce noodles <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/one-more-manufacturing-opens-door-to-local-noodle-production/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Ministry of Justice spokesmAn And CAmbodiA’s PermAnent Mission to the UN Office At GenevA (Unog) hAve described demAnds for the treAson chArge AgAinst Kem SokhA to be dropped As tAntAmount to interference in the judiciAry. RhonA Smith, the UN SpeciAl RApporteur on the situAtion <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sokhA-chArge-cAlls-Are-judiciAl-interference/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia and the US continue to strengthen cooperation in the management and conservation of natural resources. Minister of Environment Say Sam al said the two countries were involved in the management and conservation of more than seven million hectares of natural resources and biodiversity. Sam <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-to-assist-biodiversity-efforts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Mines and Energy has called on local and international companies to apply for licences to study and explore gold mining in four provinces believed to be rich in gold. according to a statement signed on November 9 by Mines and Energy Minister <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-provinces-open-for-gold-mine-exploration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Minister of Foreign AffAirs And InternAtionAl CooperAtion PrAk Sokhonn on MondAy requested the government of the Republic of KoreA to receive more CAmbodiAn migrAnt workers. The request wAs mAde At A bilAterAl meeting with South KoreAn Minister of Foreign AffAirs KAng Kyung-whA during the AseAn-Republic of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/foreign-ministry-cAlls-on-s-koreA-to-tAke-on-more-cAmbodiAn-migrAnt-workers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Civil societies on Tuesday applauded the Cambodian Human Rights Committee’s (CHRC) new legal hotline meant to promote access to justice and empower financially vulnerable people.​​ CHRC spokesman Chin Malin told The Post on Thursday that a 35-strong legal team is to be placed on standby <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/human-rights-committees-legal-hotline-receives-praise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Families have fallen into poverty and children have dropped out of school due to deficiencies in the asian Development Bank’s rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railway system, according to a complaint filed to the bank’s compliance review department. according to David Pred, managing associate for NGO Inclusive Development International, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/railway-compliance-complaint-sent-to-adb/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese ambassador Kuroki Masafumi met with human rights workers on Friday to discuss land rights in Cambodia, particularly implementation of the law and the use of force in evictions, two of the participants at the meeting said. adhoc President Thun Saray, Licadho President Pung Chhiv Kek and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-rights-talks-held-with-japanese-envoy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni began a 3-day state visit to Vietnam starting on Monday at the invitation of Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, local media reported. The visit, the fourth made by Cambodian king since he came to the throne in 2004, will likely elevate further <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-king-visits-vietnam-to-cement-bilateral-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Garment factory workers who set tyres ablaze during a strike on Friday claimed yesterday they were burned when police pushed them into their own fire. Snguon Vannary was one of several workers who said his feet had been burned when police broke up the strike at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tae-young-strikers-claim-police-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Time is running out to rid the proposed ASEAN HumAn Rights DeclArAtion of clAuses thAt would restrict peoples’ rights rAther thAn protect And enhAnce them, civil society groups sAid yesterdAy. NAy VAndA, deputy heAd of the monitoring section of rights group Adhoc, sAid civil society groups needed more <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/window-closing-on-Ahrd-ngos/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The family hotpot-style restaurant Master Suki Soup has opened its ninth restaurant in Cambodia, on Sothearos Boulevard adjacent to Hun Sen Park, with the newly relocated German Fresh Beer brew pub and German menu upstairs. The soft opening took place on Thursday night as Master Suki <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ninth-master-suki-soup-opens-in-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Less than two weeks after being released from prison, the 13 women convicted in May for protesting evictions at Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community staged their first public action yesterday. The women, joined by about as many neighbors, submitted petitions to the australian, French, U.K. and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/released-boeng-kak-women-back-to-old-ways/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Five women from the Boeng Kak lake community met with the U.S. ambassador-at-large for women’s affairs on Saturday in Siem Reap City, asking the U.S. to intervene in their case and put pressure on the Cambodian government to stop violence against women. Meeting on the sidelines <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeng-kak-women-meet-us-ambassador-for-womens-affairs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Demand for low-quality white rice from african buyers has forced Thai exporters to purchase additional stocks from Cambodia and Vietnam to meet orders because domestic rice is in short supply due to government buying scheme, traders said on Wednesday. The price of 25 per cent broken grade Thai <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asia-rice-thai-exporters-seek-vietnamese-cambodian-rice-to-meet-deals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has gained the investments of 178 million U.S. dollars from its aSEaN member states in the first six months of 2012, according to a report from the Council for the Development of Cambodia said this week. From January to June this year, the country granted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-invests-178-million-in-cambodia-for-the-first-semester-of-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 60 monks will march across Pailin province next week in an effort to educate migrant workers on ways to protect themselves from being infected by malaria, health workers and officials said yesterday. Migrant workers are particularly at risk for malaria because they often sleep <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monks-to-school-migrant-workers-on-malaria/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Unions and the Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) are unlikely to walk out of their final minimum wage meeting today with an agreed-upon increase for workers, industry insiders said yesterday. Both parties have reaffirmed their respective positions: GMaC secretary-general Ken Loo said yesterday that “nothing’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sides-dig-in-over-minimum-wage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>